So the minutes are unlikely to reveal a significant change from the bank’s current stance.

However, the market will be looking for any notable shifts in tone, given that the forecast for any moves in interest rates next year is currently leaning to the upside.

Markets are also likely to watch a speech by RBA governor Philip Lowe in Perth on Thursday (3:10pm AEST), curiously titled “The Next Chapter”.

Here’s the domestic calendar this week, via ANZ:

International

Bank of England (BoE) governor Mark Carney kicks off the week with a speech in Washington on Monday night.

His speech is likely to be analysed for any more clues on the BoE’s plans to hike rates, after bullish comments by BoE committee members at last week’s interest rate announcement saw the probability of a November rate increase rise significantly.

Then the US Federal Reserve makes its monthly interest rate announcement on Wednesday night.

Every analyst surveyed by Bloomberg forecast rates to stay on hold at 1.5%, but markets are expecting the Fed to announce the tapering of its bond purchasing program

According to ANZ analysts Daniel Been and Giulia Lavinia Specchia, any reduction will be gradual and so the initial impact on markets will be small.

On Thursday New Zealand has Q2 GDP figures, with the New Zealand central bank forecasting solid quarterly growth of 0.9%. That’s ahead of a federal election next Saturday, with polls currently showing that the result is too close to call.

Also on Thursday the Bank of Japan makes its interest rate announcement. Rates are expected to stay on hold at -0.1% with no changes to the bank’s yield-curve control program to keep 10-year bond yields around zero percent.

On Friday after Asian markets close, there’s three US Fed speakers and Canada has inflation data for August.